Perfection

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

- Francois Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed Perfection, promptly wrote at the foot of the letter I don't agree with you, and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.

- Alfred Tennyson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection

- Jalal Rumi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

- Adam Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nothing quite new is perfect.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

- George S. Patton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection.

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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

- John Locke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

- Rabindranath Tagore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He from whom all beings originate, and by whom all this universe is pervaded worshipping Him by performing one's natural duty for Him one attains perfection.

- Bhagavad-Gita Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

- Antonio Tabucchi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

- John Grant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Scarcely one out of thousands of persons strives for perfection of Self-realization.

- Bhagavad-Gita Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They played to perfection tonight.

- Arron Afflalo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

- John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He who works diligently accomplishes his work with perfection.

- Rig Veda Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

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Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.

- Hugh Laurie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

- Emile Zola Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

- Blaise Pascal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

- Gerard Groote Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes